- From: Philip TAYLOR [PC335/O-XP] <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 15:17:10 +0100
- To: "William F. Hammond" <hammond@math.albany.edu>
- CC: Lachlan Cannon <luminosity@members.evolt.org>, www-html@w3.org
William F Hammond wrote: > > Lachlan Cannon <luminosity@members.evolt.org> writes: > > > Say it out loud. You don't (or I don't anyway) start saying a sentence > > with emphasis, and then emphasise something inside that emphasis. An > > emphasis should be a small point, not an entire sentence. > > In certain typesetting situations one uses italic fonts for quoting a > sentence or two. Emphasized text within the quoted text needs to be > so represented, and this is commonly done by using roman text within > the italic text. In a content markup this would be correctly modeled > by <emph> within <emph>; With respect, no it would not : it would be correctly modelled by <emph> within <quote> (or <quotation>, or <q>, or <blockquote> or whatever). You quite specifically say that the outer text is a quotation : then it must be marked up as such, and <emph> not abused simply because you hope it will lead to italics... Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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